Logan Grant Credit: Photo via Logan Grant website
The cynics among you will say that bar bands are a dime a dozen, but they haven’t seen Logan Grant. Hockey fans, however, will get the opportunity on Sunday, June 5 when Grant plays a free pre-playoff game concert outside Amalie Arena on Sunday.

Together with his band, the Show Ponies—who’ll presumably back the Indiana-born songwriter at this pre-Game 3 Lightning gig—Grant’s big, Nashville-ready guitar playing and singing bellies his modest approach to the microphone.

The tunes kick off at 1 p.m., and we’re hoping the Bolts are up 2-0 on the Rangers by the time they return to home ice.
Pop-rock band Nightbreakers plays the Lightning’s Game 4 pre-game concert on Tuesday, June 7.

This article appears in May 26 – Jun 1, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...